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prefigure

[pree-fig-yer] / priˈfɪg yər /


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None prefigure a world I want to live in.

From Salon • Nov. 24, 2021

People who have received the shots two to four weeks earlier should watch for symptoms that may prefigure the onset of clotting.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2021

As an example, Alter cited Dr. Steiner’s assertion that “Antigone draws about herself an ethical solitude, a lucid dryness which seems to prefigure the stringencies of Kant.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2020

Tedious scenes of fighting in the first half of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, designed to prefigure that ending, come at the expense of fleshing out the character of Sharon Tate.

From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2019

Though he was new to the business of gold-mining—as new as either the bank teller or myself—he could prefigure pretty accurately what was before us.

From Branded by Lynde, Francis




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